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  OPENWAVE RELEASES OPENWAVE MOBILE BROWSER SUPPORTING THE KDDI COMMON PLATFORM
  

  au to Release New Toshiba and Sanyo WIN Handsets
 
REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - June 20, 2005 -- Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV), the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced availability of a version of its Openwave® Mobile Browser*1 for the KDDI Common Platform*2—used in the mobile handsets of KDDI Corporation. Toshiba Corporation and Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. will be the first manufacturers to release au WIN mobile handsets incorporating this release of the Openwave Mobile Browser soon.

The mobile browser's advanced customization capabilities have contributed to Openwave's success in the Japanese market. The KDDI Common Platform is a mobile-device software platform for WIN handsets and is based on BREW® technology developed by Qualcomm Inc. This common development platform contributes to software portability to different device makes and models, reducing integration costs, shortening development lead times, and improving quality. Now Openwave Systems has ported its Openwave Mobile Browser-already used as the standard browser for KDDI's EZweb services-to the KDDI Common Platform.

"With the development of our KDDI Common Platform, we have built a development platform that will enable us to offer more-competitive third-generation mobile services in a more time-sensitive manner," commented Masahiro Inoue, executive director, au Business Sector and managing director, KDDI. "We look forward to working even more closely with Openwave and to supplying more advanced applications."

"Porting the Openwave Mobile Browser to the KDDI Common Platform is an extremely significant step in our relationship with KDDI," said Yosuke Morioka, president, Nihon Openwave Systems K.K. "Going forward, we look forward to strengthening our collaboration in advanced services and deepening our partnership with KDDI's device suppliers."

Openwave Systems is committed to developing new business models and offering the latest solutions to provide a sophisticated user experience for its clients' customers.

*1 Openwave Mobile Browser
The Openwave Mobile Browser is an internet browser that already finds use in the mobile devices of some 50 manufacturers around the world. Several tens of millions of Openwave Mobile Browser-equipped handsets have been shipped, making it the world's leading mobile client software. For more details, visit the Mobile Browser product page (Japanese).

*2 KDDI Common Platform
The KDDI Common Platform is based on Qualcomm Inc.'s BREW technology and is designed to facilitate efficient development of applications to be used on mobile devices manufactured for KDDI. KDDI Common Platform is the result of extensive cooperation between KDDI and application vendors and helps to minimize the need to compensate for device-specific environmental differences when writing software for KDDI handsets with its common support for core applications (such as downloaders and browsers) as well as compatibility with OEM vendors' own applications.

About Openwave
 
Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is the leading independent provider of open software products and services for the communications industry. Openwave's breadth of products, including mobile phone software, multimedia messaging software (MMS), email, location and mobile gateways, along with its worldwide expertise enable its customers to deliver innovative and differentiated data services. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com.

 
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